Action Comics
#480
[British]
(February 1978)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 0.12 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041002
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #480.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- José Luis GarcÃa-López (signed as
Garcia Lopez) - Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed as
D. Giordano) - Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-2790
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is the man who has so often saved Metropolis about to destroy it?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #15/1978 (12. Juli 1978) -
in Giant Superman Album (K. G. Murray, 1963 ? series) #40 ([June 1980] ?) [vignette] -
in Adventures of Superman: José Luis GarcÃa-López (DC, 2013 series) #2 ([March] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- meteors
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #480 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1079/w200/1079608.jpg?-88392461437415885)
Amazo's Big Breakthrough!
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates (credited)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte (credited as Francisco Chiaramonte)
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe (credited)
- Letters
- Ben Oda (credited)
- Job Number
- S-2779
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Orbiting endlessly 22,300 miles above Earth is the ever-vigilant Justice League Satellite -- a vigil manned by a regular rotating roster of the World's Greatest Heroes...
- Feature Logo
Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Amazo; Justice League of America [Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Red Tornado [John Smith]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Hawkgirl [Shayera Hol]]; Lana Lang; Professor Ivo; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane
- Synopsis
- Superman battles Amazo. But he is defeated as his powers fade. Superman discovers a wave of red sun radiation is sweeping the Earth. Meanwhile, Amazo traps the Justice League in another dimension. Amazo goes after his creator Professor Ivo, to get him to shut him down again. Superman, with fading powers, tries to protect Ivo.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #15/1978 (12. Juli 1978)
- in Giant Superman Album (K. G. Murray, 1963 ? series) #40 ([June 1980] ?)
-
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #6/1981 (uke 26 1981)
-
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- #S-2798
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Editor: What can I say about a story that is perfect?
- Feature Logo
Superman in Action [booth change]
Indexer Notes
Letters from Barbara Reader, Mike Christiansen, and Tommy Krasker.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Is the man who has so often saved Metropolis about to destroy it?"]
Superman -
1.
Sable Lady
Batman; Hostess Cup Cakes -
2.
Amazo's Big Breakthrough!
Superman -
3.
["Dear Editor: What can I say about a story that is perfect?"]
Superman in Action -
4.
What's New at DC? (A Continuing Series)
DC Publishorial
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